- English Common Name
- Arc-eye hawkfish, Horseshoe hawkfish
- Scientific name
- Paracirrhites arcatus
- Taxonomy
- Order: Perciformes, Family: Cirrhitidae
- Size
- About 13 cm
- Species Distribution
- Tanabe Bay and southward, Indian Ocean and West Pacific, Hawaiian Islands
- This species is well-populated in Okinawa, and can be found swimming in branching corals. It feeds on small crustaceans and the like.
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- Updated August 2018
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